So I’ve gotta ask–have you read Vendetta, my new urban fantasy novel, yet? What are you waiting for? Vendetta is packed with old secrets, haunted houses, cursed objects and supernatural threats. It’s a spookalicious read! If you’ve read it, thank you! Please show your love with a review on Amazon or Goodreads, which is better than chocolate for a writer!

Buy Iron & Blood, our Steampunk adventure, anywhere from any bookseller between 2/14-2/29/16. Be one of the first 200 to sign up at this link: http://conta.cc/1Q9tKHr and follow the instructions to email a photo of your receipt for proof of purchase. We’ll send you download links to Grave Voices, a steampunk novella in our Storm & Fury tie-in series for free!

New February reader question!Answer it and be entered for a chance to win a prize!

Ever wonder how other readers read? You can find out the results of my reader habit survey here: Thanks to everyone who participated!

Newsletter giveaway! Join my Chronicles newsletter in February and be entered for a chance to win a Starbucks or Tim Horton’s gift card! Two winners—one from new sign-ups and one from existing subscribers mean more chances to win!

Coming Attractions—here’s where to find me at conventions and bookstores!

Feb 20 Signing–Books A Million, Concord Mills, Concord NC 1-3 pm

Feb 26 – 28 Mysticon, Roanoke, VA (launch party)

Mar 5-6 AZ Renaissance Festival, Apache Junction, AZ

Mar. 22 Shadow & Flame comes out!

Mar 23 AMA on Reddit/Fantasy

Mar. 26 Signing–Park Road Books, Charlotte NC

Apr. 2 Signing–Barnes & Noble South Park, Charlotte, NC

Apr. 14 Broad Universe Facebook party

Apr. 29 – May 1 Ravencon, Williamsburg, VA (launch party)

Secret new project! Shhhh—details to come!

May 7 Book Festival in Rutherfordton, NC

Have you heard about theShadow Alliance? It’s my street team, and Shadows get all kinds of cool stuff plus exclusive work-in-progress snippets. Free and fun—help me spread the word!

Happy New Year! Here’s hoping you’re staying warm and holed up with plenty of books to see you through the winter storms.

In case you need some suggestions, here’s some new stuff to read while it snows …

Vendetta is hot off the press, and it’s the newest Deadly Curiosities novel in my urban fantasy series set in historic, haunted Charleston, SC. Someone very powerful is trying to destroy Sorren and everyone he cares about. That puts Cassidy, Teag and Trifles and Folly in the cross-hairs, against an unknown enemy with strong magic and significant resources. Sorren has spent centuries shutting down the plans of powerful immortals, dark warlocks and supernatural creatures, and now he’s got to figure out which of those many enemies is out to get him before they pick off his friends one by one and come after him to finish an immortal vendetta.

Redcap is the latest Deadly Curiosities Adventure short story, with killer pixies running loose in Charleston. It’s a ‘bloody’ good Christmas story!

Binge readers! If you’ve been waiting to read the Blaine McFadden Ascendant Kingdoms series until all the books were out—now’s the time to start! Shadow and Flame, the fourth and final book in the series comes out March 22 (now available for pre-order). And now there are three new ‘prequel’ novellas in my new King’s Convicts set plus a short story that fill in a six-year gap at the beginning of Ice Forged and spill the secrets about Blaine’s years as a convict, how he met Kestel, Piran, Verran and Dawe, and more! Here’s the sequence: Ice Forged (novel), then Arctic Prison, Ice Bound, No Reprieve, and Cold Fury (novellas and short story), and Reign of Ash, War of Shadows and Shadow and Flame (novels). Perfect reading for long winter nights! Click on the links for excerpts and ordering.

Contest just for newsletter readers! The Chronicles newsletter is going monthly and so are the giveaways with two new winners every month, one from existing subscribers and one from new subscribers! January’s prize is a $10 Amazon gift certificate plus an envelope of signed swag! Watch for a new prize and new drawing in February!

New Steampunk!Grave Voices, our newest novella, is now live on Kindle, Kobo and Nook. It’s a Storm and Fury Adventure, set in our Iron & Blood world of 1898 alternative history Pittsburgh. Clockwork zombies, mad scientists, creepy dolls and awesome inventions make for a thrilling tale packed with explosions!

We’re also stretch goal authors for the Gaslight and Grimm steampunk fairy tale anthology funding now on Kickstarter! We’ve hit our basic funding level, but to add our story (a steampunk retelling of the Three Billy Goats Gruff), we need to add a few more bucks to the bucket. Hurry—the Kickstarter campaign ends soon!

Join the Shadow Alliance! My new street team gets exclusive snippets from the books and stories I’m working on, plus special contests, giveaways and get-togethers for helping spread the word about my books. It’s free—and fun!

Upcoming events—Here’s where to find me in February and March. If you’re at a con with me, I love it when people take panel photos or take a pix with me and tag/post!

“Wow! One marvelous, twisty, touching, thrill of a book.”–Kat Richardson, bestselling author of the Greywalker novels

“Exceptional once again.” –Douglas Meeks

“Rachets up the tension”–Blackgate

“Ending 2015 with a bang”–Horror Underground

In case you still have some room on the book gift card you got for the holiday, here are a few suggestions!

The Weird Wild West features our Storm and Fury steampunk adventure Ruin Creek, set in the world of Iron & Blood (and a reviewer favorite). Plenty of your favorite authors and lots of weird West stories to while away a winter evening!

Cinched: Imagination Unboundanthology with a corset theme features another of our Storm and Fury steampunk stories, Lagniappe, set in New Orleans. We’re in fine company with a slew of other amazing authors!

The Side of Good/The Side of Evilsuperhero/supervillain anthology features still another Storm and Fury steampunk adventure, Ghost Wolf (another reviewer favorite) with all-star author company in a fine anthology for a long winter night.

No Reprieverevisits a moment in Blaine McFadden’s convict past–brand new from Orbit Short Fiction on Amazon. Arctic Prisonand Ice Bound are two novella-length stories in the new King’s Convicts ebook series about Blaine’s time in Velant Prison (watch for the third and last King’s Convicts novella–Cold Fury–coming soon!).

Redcap is the new Deadly Curiosities Adventure short story for December, for anyone who has ever been suspicious of the elf on the shelf or thought it was no accident that grandma got run over by a reindeer. It’s a bloody good Christmas story!

What are you waiting for? Dive in now and read until spring!

And remember–if you like my books, please write a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads. It really matters! Thank you.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year–and that means lots of new books!

You can catch my blog post about creating fictional holidays here. But if you’re making a list and checking it twice, I’ve got some naughty and nice suggestions for the readers on your list (and why not get a little something for yourself while you’re at it. Winter is coming–you need new books!)

And there’s still time to get in on the Big Holiday Book Giveawayfeaturing books by Faith Hunter, David B. Coe, Jennifer Estep, Christina Henry, Laura Anne Gilman, John Hartness, Mindy Mymudes and me!

Now for plenty of new books, novellas, anthologies and short stories so you can curl up with a bunch of good reading, a warm beverage, and a furry pet to while away the winter hours!

Vendetta, the next Deadly Curiosities novel, comes out December 29! You can pre-order here

Fatal Invitation is the newest Deadly Curiosities Adventure short story, available now on Kindle/Kobo/Nook.

And there’s more! The superhero/supervillain anthology The Side of Good/The Side of Evil features our Storm and Fury Adventures steampunk superhero story set in the world of Iron & Blood. It’s available in print and ebook now!

NEW! Cinched: Imagination Unboundis nice and naughty, with corset-themed stories including Lagniappe, our Storm and Fury steampunk story also in the Iron & Blood world. Grab it now!

THREE all-new Blaine McFadden stories as we count down to the fourth and final book in March, 2016. No Reprieveis a short story about a pivotal moment during Blaine’s convict years on Velant–new from Orbit Short Fiction, available on ebook Dec. 15.

And there are two novellas in the King’s Convicts series about Blaine and his friends during their time in Velant–Arctic Prisonand Ice Bound. The novellas and short story fill in the six year-gap in Ice Forged–Watch for more in 2016.

The Weird Wild West anthology–featuring our Storm and Fury steampunk story Ruin Creek set in the Iron & Blood world–is available for pre-order (and it’s been getting really good reviews, including a shout-out for our story in particular!)

And the first new book in the Chronicles of the Necromancer world in five years–The Shadowed Path–is also available for pre-order. This is a collection of the first 10 Jonmarc Vahanian short stories plus an exclusive, never-before-seen 11th story only available in the ebook or print anthology!

Have you heard about The Shadow Alliance? It’s my new street team–more fun than you can have without a secret decoder ring, and better cookies than the Dark Side. Members get exclusive sneak peeks of work in progress, cool contests and giveaways, members-only get-togethers at cons (you’ll need the secret handshake to get in) and lots of fun while spreading the word about my books. It’s free–sign up today!

Watch for the next Deadly Curiosities Adventure holiday story–they’re going to have a bloody good time in Charleston this year!

Here’s a Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal for you–Vendetta, the second Deadly Curiosities short story–is available for pre-order! It comes out December 29, just in time for reading after the holiday rush.

Someone very powerful is trying to destroy Sorren and everyone he cares about. That puts Cassidy, Teag and Trifles and Folly in the cross-hairs, against an unknown enemy with strong magic and significant resources. Sorren has spent centuries shutting down the plans of powerful immortals, dark warlocks and supernatural creatures, and now he’s got to figure out which of those many enemies is out to get him before they pick off his friends one by one and come after him to finish an immortal vendetta. Preorder here:
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If you want to get exclusive sneak peeks and snippets about works in progress, as well as fun contests, special get-togethers at select conventions and super-secret members-only stuff, join TheShadow Alliance! It’s my new street team dedicated to having fun, being in-the-know, and helping boost the signal about my books. It’s the most fun you can have without a secret decoder ring! Sign up here:

Everyone loves to win free stuff, and it’s even better when it’s free books! I’m part of a big holiday book giveaway with other top authors like Faith Hunter, David B. Coe, Jennifer Estep, Christina Henry, John Hartness, Stuart Jaffe and Mindy Mymudes. Entering is super-easy–just comment on blogs and social media–and the more you enter, the more chances to win! Get all the details here:

Bookloons is also doing a giveaway of Deadly Curiosities through 12/3 Grab it here:

If you’ve read Ice Forged, you know there’s a six year gap between when Blaine McFadden gets sent to Velant Prison and when the book picks up again when he’s a colonist on Edgeland. Ever wonder what really happened in those years? My new novella series, The King’s Convicts and TheKing’s Exiles, will fill you in–plus there’s an exclusive short story that I wrote for Orbit Books about one of Blaine’s most memorable moments as a prisoner in Velant.

Arctic Prison is the first novella in The King’s Convicts series. It’s available on Kindle/Kobo/Nook–here’s the Amazon link:

No Reprieve is the short story about something that happened to Blaine in Velant that will haunt his memories for the rest of his life. It’s coming out December 15 and here’s the Kindle link:

More new stuff just in time for the holidays! Larry and I have a steampunk superhero story–Ghost Wolf–in The Side of Good/TheSide of Evil, a really fun superhero/supervillain anthology from ESpec Books. It’s available now in print and ebook:

You can win a copy of The Weird Wild West, which has our steampunk weird Western story Ruin Creek, through Nov. 30 on Goodreads here: Look for it to be available for purchase in December on Amazon in print and ebook.

This week only, Solaris Books has a contest to win one of my books bit.ly/1TI6uPQ

And now through mid-December, you can put more ‘happy’ in your holidays with our book-a-palooza Holiday Giveaway for books and gift cards—the more you enter, the more chances you have to win! http://bit.ly/1XN56wA

New stories!

If you’ve read Ice Forged, you know that there’s a six-year gap while Blaine and his friends are in Velant Prison and on Edgeland that gets skipped over. Well, I’m bringing out an all-new set of novellas set in those years, plus Orbit Short Fiction has an exclusive short story coming up around a pivotal moment in Blaine’s time in Velant.

Arctic Prison is the first novella in the King’s Convicts series. It’s available now on Kindle/Kobo/Nook—here’s the Amazon link: http://amzn.com/B017DZ787M

Watch for the second King’s Convicts novella, Ice Bound, later this month.

No Reprive is the pivotal short story, coming out in December: http://amzn.com/B0151YRCPA

There are brand new covers for Grave Voices (a free, full-length Storm & Fury steampunk adventure novella on Wattpad) and for Resurrection Day, a Storm & Fury steampunk short story on Kindle/Kobo/Nook. Both are set in the world of Iron & Blood, featuring Mitch Storm and Jacob Drangosavich, agents from the Department of Supernatural Investigation, and some of their friends. (Lots of things blow up.)

Spook House is the October Deadly Curiosities Adventure short story with a Halloween theme—it’s out now on Kindle/Kobo/Nook http://amzn.com/B017ABS8R8 Be watching for a new story later this month!

The Weird Wild West, an awesome anthology of weird Westerns comes out later this year. So does The Side of Good/The Side of Evil, a superhero/supervillain anthology with our story “Ghost Wolf’. Preorder here: http://amzn.com/1942990030. We’ll have a big launch party for both of these books at Philcon the weekend before Thanksgiving.

I’ll be at Atomacon the weekend of Nov. 12. Friday night, I’m part of an awesome multi-author launch party, and I’ll be reading from Weird Wild West and The Side of Good. Then Saturday night I’m holding a pre-launch party for Vendetta, which comes out December 29! (but you can pre-order it now!)

Watch my DisquietingVisions blog for November posts from authors for The Weird Wild West and The Side of Good/The Side of Evil!

And if you missed all the other fun blog posts, here are recap pages where you can find everything (different links on each page, note that some of the giveaways have ended, but the blog posts are still available!)

Happy Halloween! This is one of my favorite holidays (ok, my favorite next to Christmas), and while I’m getting ready to give out candy to all the little goblins and ghoulies who ring my doorbell, I’ve got plenty of spooktacular surprises for readers, too!

We’re almost at the end of my Days of the Dead blog tour, but there are still new surprises yet to come!

New Stories!

First off, I’m introducing a whole new six-part novella series set in the Ascendant Kingdoms world featuring Blaine McFadden and his convict friends during their time in Velant Prison and Edgeland colony—the ‘missing’ six years at the beginning of Ice Forged. King’s Convicts Novella 1: Arctic Prison begins right where the prologue of Ice Forged leaves off, with Blaine and Verran on the ship bound for Edgeland! Available now–Read it here (available on Kindle, Kobo and Nook): http://amzn.com/B017DZ787M

And a second Blaine McFadden short story during the Velant years, No Reprieve, comes out in December (available for pre-order) http://amzn.com/B0151YRCPA

Just in time for Halloween—Spook House, a Deadly Curiosities Adventure short story, is available now! Cassidy and Teag have their hands full when a haunted house attraction gives guests more supernatural scares than they bargained for! http://amzn.com/B017ABS8R8

And the first new addition to the Chronicles of the Necromancer series in four years—The Shadowed Path—is a PRINT and ebook collection of the first 10 Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures PLUS an exclusive, never-before-seen 11th story that’s ONLY in the collection. Coming in 2016, pre-order here: http://amzn.com/1781084394

I’ve got a favor to ask: If you’ve liked my books/stories please do me a BIG favor and leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads! Reviews matter a lot! Thank you.

More Giveaways!

The Broad Universe Full Moon blog tour with 30 author blogs and 3 awesome book bundle giveaways runs through 11/7. Find the blogs here: http://bit.ly/1LPBLNR and the rafflecopter for the giveaways here: http://bit.ly/1LRYrtr

The Swaggiest Swag promotion—like a convention in an envelope!—ends tonight! All it costs you is an envelope and a stamp, and you get free swag from me, David B. Coe, Faith Hunter, John Hartness, Stuart Jaffe, Darynda Jones, Christina Henry, Laura Anne Gilman and Jennifer Estep—info here https://www.facebook.com/events/147435758936773/

Win yourself a copy of The Weird Wild West (which includes our Steampunk Storm and Fury Adventure Ruin Creek) http://bit.ly/1iUU8pw

New holiday giveaway with free books, book gift cards and cool stuff from the same bunch of authors (including me!) who brought you The Swaggiest Swag—to enter, just comment on a blog or Facebook page, or join our newsletters, like our pages, details here—the more you enter, the more chances to win! http://www.ltpromos.com/2015/10/31/happyholidays/

It’s not over yet, so make sure you check back here, on Facebook and Twitter for more haunted happenings!

So much fun stuff going on, so many Trick or Treat goodies, so much you don’t want to miss! My Days of the Dead blog tour rolls on with new blog posts, new giveaways and new excerpts for your shivery pleasure!

If you want to make sure you always know about new books, stories, novellas, events and giveaways, please join my Chronicles newsletter. It’s free, you’ll get excerpts and flash fiction, and you’ll get the scoop first! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/1CF12Th

And don’t forget The Swaggiest Swag giveaway. If you like bookmarks, postcards and cool free stuff from bestselling authors, this is for you. I’m one of 11 authors who are giving away neat stuff for just the cost of a self-addressed/stamped envelope. Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/147435758936773/

On a slightly more serious note….Did you know that just because you’ve signed up for my Winter Kingdoms Facebook page, that doesn’t mean Facebook will let you see what I post? It’s true—Facebook has gotten greedy, and if you don’t pay to do ads or boosted posts, only about 1% – 3% of followers see what is posted. If you want to make sure you always know about new books, stories, novellas, events and giveaways, please join my Chronicles newsletter. It’s free, you’ll get excerpts and flash fiction, and you’ll get the scoop first! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/1CF12Th

And don’t forget The Swaggiest Swag giveaway. If you like bookmarks, postcards and cool free stuff from bestselling authors, this is for you. I’m one of 11 authors who are giving away neat stuff for just the cost of a self-addressed/stamped envelope. Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/147435758936773/

We are going to celebrate in style this year with excerpts, interviews, book giveaways, sneak peeks at new covers, and more!

Three new books are coming up—and that’s just the beginning! On December 29, Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel (Solaris Books) launches—and it’s got an awesome Chris McGuire cover. Then in March, Shadow and Flame (Orbit Books) comes out—the fourth and final book in the Ascendant Kingdoms series. In June, we return to the world of The Summoner with Shadowed Path, a print (and ebook) anthology of the first ten Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures PLUS an exclusive eleventh story that is only in the anthology!

But wait, there’s more! The Weird Wild West anthology is out, with a Storm and Fury Adventure story from Larry N. Martin and me, and The Side of Good/The Side of Evil anthology/flipbook is also new—and it’s got another Storm and Fury Adventure story as well. Speaking of the Iron & Blood-related Storm and Fury Adventures, check out the FREE full novella Grave Voices on Wattpad as well as short stories Resurrection Day and Airship Down on Kindle/Kobo and Nook.

There’s a brand new Deadly Curiosities Adventure short story, Spook House, right in time for Halloween, and earlier this year we wrapped up Season 2 of the Jonmarc Vahanian Adventures—Season 3 will start in 2016. Plus there are all-new Blaine McFadden novellas coming soon in the King’s Convicts series, that happens before the main action in Ice Forged (available on Kindle/Kobo and Nook). And coming up in December, a Blaine McFadden short story, No Reprieve, debuts on Orbit Short Fiction.

In fact, there is so much awesome cool stuff going on that it takes TWO different blog tours to contain it all! That’s where the Full Moon Blog Tour comes in—with even MORE great blogs from 25+ different authors (including me) so just click here to get started!

So what ELSE is going on with the Days of the Dead tour? Here’s the deal—different blogs will post my guest articles on different days. Make the rounds, enter the contests, be entertained and grab some fun freebies!

What kind of freebies? First off, there’s The Swaggiest Swag giveaway. If you like bookmarks, postcards and cool free stuff from bestselling authors, this is for you. I’m one of 11 authors who are giving away neat stuff for just the cost of a self-addressed/stamped envelope. Find out more here:

I’ll have three different Goodreads giveaways, one for Iron & Blood, one for Deadly Curiosities and one for The Weird Wild West. There are also giveaways on Reddit, Bookloons, The Full Moon Blog Tour, No More Grumpy Bookseller and Romance Bandits. Sprinkled along with the guest blog posts are links to excerpts for all my books and short stories, plus DOZENS of links to books and short stories by author friends of mine. Enough to keep you reading for quite a while!

What are you waiting for? You can get in on all the Days of the Dead fun on a treasure hunt/Trick-or-Treat just by visiting these sites when my blog posts go live: SolarisBooks, Goodreads, Wattpad, MagicalWords, RisingShadow, SfSignal, ESpecBooks, FantasyFaction, TheQwillery, SFX, MyBookishWays, BeautyInRuins, TheBookPlank, ISmellSheep, FantasyBookCritic, SFWorld, UMassSFSociety, WeGeekGirls, NoMoreGrumpyBookseller, Bookloons, FalcataTimes, SFBokhandlein and more!